I am mainly interested in how people use language for persuasive purposes. My recent work has researched how emigration and immigration in the UK have been framed over the last 200 years and I am currently working on a project investigating the rhetorical uses of nostalgia.
Experience
2023–present
Professor of Discourse and Persuasion, University of Sussex
2018–2023
Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, University of Sussex
2013–2018
Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics, University of Sussex